Request: Hide generated color definitions

I'm updating FrameMaker templates to reflect changes to my company's color palette as part of a rebranding initiative. My documents are full of overlapping conditions which means that each document's color definitions window is cluttered with dozens of "fm_gen_nnn" color definitions. It's not possible to permanently eliminate these junk color definitions because if you save as MIF, strip them out, and then reopen the file, there they are again because of the conditional text.
Request: please *hide* all these "fm_gen_nnn" color definitions in the color definitions window. They are of no use to anyone, and they make it hard to use the window.

becky,
FM's new version of conditional text creates a unique colour for *each unique* overlap condition, so, yes this really is where your "fm_gen" colours are coming from.
Unfortunately, FM's default and generated colours are always placed first in most lists (except those with full sorts, like in the Color > View panels), which kind of limits how you can interact with the colours, i.e. you may not like it, but that's the way it is.
You're suggestion of hiding the generated colours is an excellent and you should post it in the FM Feature Requests forum (http://forums.adobe.com/community/framemaker/framemaker_feature_requests) and also make an official feature request submission at: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=63
Note: all FM lists allow the typing of the first character as jump to the first matching item in the list. So if you name your custom colours with a unique starting character, like zLogo_color, then typing "z" when a colour list displayed would jump to that colour (or the first one that starts with "z"). This might make dealing with long lists a bit more tolerable.

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